WRITER

Steven Erikson

1959 - Today

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Steve Rune Lundin (born October 7, 1959), known by his pseudonym Steven Erikson, is a Canadian novelist who was educated and trained as both an archaeologist and anthropologist. He is best known for his ten-volume spanning epic fantasy series Malazan Book of the Fallen, which began with the publication of Gardens of the Moon (1999) and was completed with the publication of The Crippled God (2011). By 2012 over 1 million copies of the series had been sold worldwide, and over 3 million copies by 2018. SF Site has called the series "the most significant work of epic fantasy since Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant," and Fantasy Book Review described it as "the best fantasy series of recent times." Fellow author Glen Cook has called the series a masterwork, while Stephen R. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steven Erikson has received more than 1,000,141 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Steven Erikson is the 4,659th most popular writer (down from 4,075th in 2019), the 328th most popular biography from Canada (down from 279th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Canadian Writer.

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  • 55.51

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Steven Erikson ranks 4,659 out of 7,302. Before him are Koji Suzuki, Nicholas Meyer, Constantin Negruzzi, Eudora Welty, Joseph Roumanille, and Tatyana Tolstaya. After him are Aelianus Tacticus, Hermann Kesten, Andrej Sládkovič, Svatopluk Čech, Igor Newerly, and Vishnu Sharma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Steven Erikson ranks 231. Before him are Ricardo Gallego, Sting, Stephen Roche, Momoe Yamaguchi, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, and Sanjay Dutt. After him are Erwin Olaf, Glenn Hysén, Dominique Dunne, Marco Antonio Solís, Peter Molyneux, and Janusz Kamiński.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Steven Erikson ranks 328 out of 1,622. Before him are Yassine Bounou (1991), Pom Klementieff (1986), Seth Rogen (1982), Nancy Huston (1953), Percy Williams (1908), and Kenneth E. Iverson (1920). After him are David Suzuki (1936), Susan Clark (1943), Mary Harron (1953), Rick Danko (1943), Carole Laure (1948), and Jacques Villeneuve (1953).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Steven Erikson ranks 23. Before him are Robin Sharma (1965), Mordecai Richler (1931), Laurence J. Peter (1919), Duncan Regehr (1952), Émile Nelligan (1879), and Nancy Huston (1953). After him are Michel Tremblay (1942), Naomi Klein (1970), Wyndham Lewis (1882), Harold Russell (1914), Grant Allen (1848), and Justine Musk (1972).

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